Title :
High speed optical switching using MQW semiconductor laser amplifiers
Author :
Yao, J. ; Walker, N. ; Sherlock, G.
Author_Institution :
British Telecom Labs., Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
The use of MQW semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) for high-speed optical switching is reported. Experiments show that when a laser amplifier is operated at high saturation, it can be used as a high-speed switch gate in multi-giga-bit fibre optic systems. Eight-bit packet extraction from a 2.5 Gb/s PRBS optical data stream has been demonstrated with no observable BER penalty
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; optical switches; semiconductor junction lasers; 2.5 Gbit/s; 8-bit packet extraction; MQW semiconductor laser amplifiers; PRBS optical data stream; high saturation; high-speed optical switching; high-speed switch gate; multi-giga-bit fibre optic systems;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Amplifiers for Communications, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
